...superintendents have come up with a plan to create and lead new teams. The purpose of the new teams is to begin production of the newly designed CardiCare Valve heart valves. As part of the superintendent’s teams I have created a plan to identify various strategies available to build teams, challenges or barrios and measures used to determine if the team is operating successfully. The plan is divided into two sections Team Strategy Plan and Conflict Management Plan. * * Team Strategy Plan: * There are five stages of group development forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The first stage forming is where team members meet and exchange information about each such as experiences and backgrounds. In this stage team members are accepting and avoiding conflict. The second stage is storming team members have different opinions of how and what thing should be done and who should be in control. This may cause some conflict within the teams. The third stage is norming where teams begin to work more effectively together. Team members respect each other’s opinion and differences. The fourth stage is performing teams are fully functional and accepted. Members have gotten to know each other by this stage and are able to the task at hand. The last stage is the adjourning stage where the task is coming to an end. * * One of the challenges we must teams face is conflict. Conflict can result in increase in turnover rate, decrease in team satisfaction and inefficiencies...
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...University of Phoenix Material Team Strategy Plan 1. Complete the following table to address the creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. |Strategy |Strengths |Weaknesses | | |Members are often positive in this stage. |Can be stressful and promote feelings of | |Forming |The Culture of the group is formed. |anxiety because of the uncertainty of a new| | | |group. | |Storming |Establishes structure. Also forms processes|Team members may challenge each other’s | | |that the group will fallow. Gives a way to |authority. Members may show negativity | | |work out conflict. |toward other group members if they feel | | | |that their individuality is being | | | |constrained. | |Norming |Differences are resolved. Stengths of |Suseptible to rolling back to storming | | ...
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...Team Strategy Plan Micah Flores MGT/311 March 20, 2014 John Humphries Team Strategy Plan Both in the past and contemporary organizations have used teams in business to change or enhance their operations or production. Although times have changed the beliefs and opinions of the use of teams within the organizational structure of given companies, the debate continues over which situations are best suited for teams to benefit the organization, and the type of team to create for a given company. Strategies for the creation of teams in business vary, and each has its own strengths and weaknesses. The key for any organization in the implementation of teams is to evaluate which type of team will successfully enhance the organization in accordance with the type of work and employees to perform that work. As a superintendent for Riordan Manufacturing, Inc., I will work to determine the most beneficial type of team to maximize production of the newly designed custom heart valves at the Pontiac, MI location. There are various strategies in the formation of teams for business purposes. One such strategy is known as the problem-solving team. Teams constructed and labeled as problem-solving are usually informal in nature and do not accomplish much in the grand scheme of things organizationally. They are usually comprised of no more than 12 employees, most likely at the same pay level and from the same department within the company. The meetings between members of problem-solving...
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...University of Phoenix Material Team Strategy Plan 1. Complete the following table to address the creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. |Strategy |Strengths |Weaknesses | |Forming stage |Determines what behaviors are acceptable. |Group may be anxious due to uncertainty in | | |Once complete, members will consider |the beginning, as the group does not yet | | |themselves as part of a group. |have an agenda to follow. | |Storming stage |Acceptance of the group, determine |Resistance by some in regards to | | |hierarchy of leadership within the group. |constraints it imposes on individuality. | |Norming stage |Group solidifies and sets expectations. |Groups may establish a list of “don’ts.” | | |Team member’s behavior is defined as what |In fear of over or under producing may | | |is acceptable. This includes performance, |result in layoffs, wage cuts, and work | | |appearance, social arrangement, and |incentives. Therefore, a road “in the | |...
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...University of Phoenix Material Team Strategy Plan 1. Complete the following table to address the creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. Strategy | Strengths | Weaknesses | Expectations of goals | Good for measuring the objectives and enhance the competence a team. | If a team member fails to communicate or does not believe her or she is part of the group the team is likely to fail. | Open communication | Consistent communication leaves no team members guessing what he or she should do. | Lack of communication may lead to team member not doing the correct task. | Tem cohesiveness | Team is unified and works as if they are one person. | Conflict of personal interest may cause the a team not to integrate. | Resolving conflict | Teams who solve conflicts quickly and as a team are likely to succeed. | Clashing personalities could draw conflicts out longer average. | Consequences | Teams realizing consequences allow creativity within the group. | Team members who believe he or she is not accountable may omit themselves from the consequence. | 2. Identify the team formation strategy that is most suitable for Riordan Manufacturing, and provide the rationale for the decision. Your response should be at least 100 words. The diverse group of employees at Riodan Manufacturing Pontiac, Missouri will allow a team formation strategy called Six Hats. The concept behind Six Hats is each employee wears a different "hat" (role) in the team. Each of the Six Thinking Hats represents...
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...Team Strategy and Conflict Management Plan Bryan Cash MGT/311 July 31, 2012 Omotoye Omokheyeke Team Strategy and Conflict Management Plan As superintendent at Riordan Manufacturing, a task has been assigned to create teams within the organization to begin production of a newly designed heart valve. There are several strategies that can be used in the development of these teams, each of which will have its own set of strengths and weaknesses. Within these teams that are being developed there are always going to be instances of conflict that will arise. It is important to understand and know how to handle these conflicts and what the different conflict management strategies are. Every conflict management strategy will also have its own set of strengths and weaknesses and by identifying them it will be easier to choose the correct one for the situation. There are different methods for building and forming a team and there are five that were looked at in the formation of this team. The first method is a clear expectation of goals, a strength being that it offers much better efficiency at measuring objectives; however, it does not address communications and human relationships. There must be a definite part delineation of each group associate since each individual in the group must know the part he or she is supposed to perform in the group with regards to the parts of the other individuals and group associates. Each associate must understand where and how he or she fits...
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...Team Strategy and Conflict Management Plans Kimberly Faagata, Carrie Firman, Dan Lyle, Stephen Nelson, and Dera Tennelle MGT 311 June 10, 2013 Penny Thomas Part I The purpose of this paper is to discuss different strategies for team building which helps is overcoming conflicts in a working environment. Based on current strategies available on subject, it tries to figure out some leading challenges to addressed, and extracting the best strategy for team building. It covers analysis of factors and measures for building up a successful team, which serves as a common ground for a progress in evaluation of best strategy for the particular purpose. Introduction Every organizational environment has teams, which refer to different members, who are working as one. Every team is usually built on a base that acquaintances or secures the members collectively in every action to promote growth within the unit, and it is known as team building. Team building concerns to a range of activities and program, which are used by different organizations, for instance businesses, sports, academic institutions, religious and non-profit grouping with an intention of boosting up team performance. The activities manifest using a choice of methods and advancement approches, ranging from a plain bonding action to an exigent simulations, used for planned team building outings and recoils intents to build up everyone. Strategies Available to Build Teams There are many strategies available to...
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...University of Phoenix Material Team Strategy Plan 1. Complete the following table to address the creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. |Strategy |Strengths |Weaknesses | |Common plan and Purpose. |Well defined clear communication detailing |Having too many different agendas and cause| |Team members, identify mission, goals, and |goals and purpose will enhance the |confusion within the team. | |strategies. Each person can have clear |organization. | | |understanding of steps needed to accomplish| | | |this. | | | | | | | |Team efficancy. |Team can accomplish the goals and missions |If team members lack certain skills then | |The ability to succeed. |identified by the team. |this could limit the team’s level of | | | |success of a mission. | ...
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...Material Team Strategy Plan 1. Complete the following table to address the creation of teams at Riordan Manufacturing. Strategy | Strengths | Weaknesses | Team size | When there are smaller teams it deems to be more effective; Making sure there are enough team members to get the job done effectively. | When there are larger teams at bay then it usually becomes a problem; Larger teams sometimes lack accountability. | Distribution of roles and diversity | This is a better way to understand the teams weaknesses and strengths. | Need to be more focused on differences for higher level of success. | The personality and the ability of team members | There’s a limit to what certain team members can do. | The performance, abilities and skills of each team members. | Leadership/ Structure | Workload must be shared between all team members; Must learn to delegate responsibility. | This structure may not be likely for self managed teams; Functionality may lack because no one agrees. | Preferences of team members | Gives options; may have high and low performing team members | There may be a lack of team participation; threat to team morale. | 2. Identify the team formation strategy that is most suitable for Riordan Manufacturing, and provide the rationale for the decision. Your response should be at least 100 words. The team formation strategy that is most suitable for Riordan Manufacturing is the personality and the ability of the team members. Using...
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...Successful Marketing Strategies Jadiam Lopez ENG/147 Prof: Susan Honea A successful marketing strategy or campaign relies heavily on a marketing team’s ability to manage time effectively. Success comes with perseverance, but also, the marketing team needs to manage their time correctly and organize their thoughts. Time can work against the marketing team if their time is not managed efficiently, also if the marketing team is not organized it can further complicate the marketing team chance to prevail. Success is dependent on a lot of different factors, but one thing is for certain; a successful marketing strategy requires a great deal of time management and strong organizational skills. Time management will give one of the best chances to be successful in marketing. As a team leader delegates assignments, the focus will be slowly on how to use all resources properly with ample time. Given the proper time, the marketing team can easily prepare to research, edit, revise and proofread the project on hand. “As they say, "We don't plan to fail; we fail to plan." Don't let a "nonexistent" marketing plan guide your business.” (VanVranken, 2012). What Van Vranken means is always to draw a plan for success, because if the team fails to plan, then the team is planning on failing. Time management provides a base so all projects will meet the current deadline without the need to rush. With all success in life, no matter if it's a project or real world, time management is a key factor...
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...Teams, Groups and Conflict Susan Pickett MGT/311 March 30th 2015 Charles Sprague Teams, Groups and Conflict As one of the team superintendents with Riordan Manufacturing I have been asked to come up with a Strategy Plan along with a Conflict Management Plan, for our new project underway. Our group was hired to lead new teams into the production of the newly designed Cardi Care Valve heart valves, most of us will have to relocate to Pontiac Michigan until the manufacturing of these custom plastic parts has been completed. A lot of the production teams are current employees from some of our other divisions, and we expect to hire a few more new employees to help us complete our goal with in a timely manner. Part I: Team Strategy Plan After carefully reviewing the employees that Riordan Manufacturing has elected to help us with our goal, I will collect all of the information one each employee and prepare a plan delegating who will be on what teams, but before this will happen I have to address a few strategies to help me produce this plan. There are five strategies to choose from when choosing a team strategy plan. The strategies include: clear expectations of goals, channels of communication, conflict resolution, consequences, and celebrating achievements as a team. Clear expectations of goals and targets: There should be a clear roles defined for each team member, every person in the team should know the role he or she is expected to play, without Clear expectations...
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...BEHAVIOUR ASSIGNMENT -1 LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character —Norman Schwarzkopf The above quote truly summarizes my leadership orientation. Strength of my leadership lies in my ability to craft a vision for my team and structurally creating a plan to achieve the objectives. I create a vision for the team by understanding past of the organization and communicate the vision effectively to the team. During uncertain times, rationality becomes inadequate. To increase predictability in such times, I inspire people to think imaginatively and creatively. I vitalize the team with my compelling stories. I like to reward and celebrate initial breakthroughs. I take responsibilities for my actions and hold myself accountable. Structural thinking helps me build an implementation plan and develop coordination strategy to achieve my goals. I can plan for short term victories and Page 1 of 6 create structures to support the change. Thinking structurally helps me to deduce next logical steps and increase my efficiency of execution. It also has helps me evaluate my skills and address my performance gaps. I need to work on my political and human resource frames of leadership. I have to develop the channels of informal communications to build alliances. Even though I decide my strategies structurally, I have to learn to anticipate other’s strategy and change my strategies accordingly. I should develop more stronger relations with opponents to facilitate...
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...activities This section about implement marketing strategies and tactics, briefing stakeholder on their roles and responsibilities, identify marketing and non-marketing personnel on the objectives of the plan, performance measures, and their role and responsibilities. Prioritising marketing strategies and identify resources for their implementation, communicating and team building strategies to ensure that personnel responsible for each element of the marketing mix work together to meet marketing objectives and implement strategies for monitoring marketing activities and analysing marketing performance, in according with the marketing plan. 2. Describe the marketing strategies and tactics Deciding what to do is important, the actual implement of the strategies and tactics is equally as important. This means that a systematic approach is required to identify the marketing strategies of the organisation and they implement the tactics and activities required for each strategy. This initial information can typically be typically be obtained by looking at the organisation’s marketing plan. The action plan should outline the tactics or activities required for each strategy. For example, action purchase top placement in internet searches for relevant commonly searched terms, run an advertising campaign on radio and tv, establish a loyalty program to increase repeat business and referrals. As with all action plan it should contain information the actions required,...
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...UNDERSTANDING AND ADHERING TO ALL POLICIES CONTAINED WITHIN THE FOLLOWING TWO DOCUMENTS: UNIVERSITY POLICIES: YOU MUST BE LOGGED INTO THE STUDENT WEBSITE TO VIEW THIS DOCUMENT. INSTRUCTOR POLICIES: THIS DOCUMENT IS POSTED IN THE COURSE MATERIALS FORUM. UNIVERSITY POLICIES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE. BE SURE TO READ THE POLICIES AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH CLASS. POLICIES MAY BE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT DEPENDING ON THE MODALITY IN WHICH YOU ATTEND CLASS. IF YOU HAVE RECENTLY CHANGED MODALITIES, READ THE POLICIES GOVERNING YOUR CURRENT CLASS MODALITY. COURSE MATERIALS BARNEY, J. B. (2007). GAINING AND SUSTAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (3RD ED.). UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ: PEARSON PRENTICE HALL. MINTZBERG, H., GHOSHAL, S., LAMPEL, J., & QUINN, J. B. (2003). THE STRATEGY PROCESS: CONCEPTS, CONTEXTS, CASES (4TH ED.). UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ: PRENTICE HALL. PEARCE, J. A., II, & ROBINSON, R. B. (2011). STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: FORMULATION, IMPLEMENTATION, AND CONTROL (12TH ED.). BOSTON, MA: MCGRAW-HILL/IRWIN. PLEASE PRINT AND BRING A COPY OF THIS COURSE SYLLABUS FOR REVIEW AND TO CLARIFY THE EXPECTATIONS AS WE MEET IN THE FIRST CLASS. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THIS SYLLABUS IS CONSIDERED THE RULING DOCUMENT COPYRIGHT...
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...categoryId=-1 If You Face Any Problem E- Mail Us At Contact.Hwnerd@Gmail.Com Week 2 Assignment Employee Portfolio Management Plan You are a manager of three employees at Riordan Manufacturing. You recently had these employees take a series of self-assessments to aid you in managing them. Now that you have these assessments, you are now tasked with creating an Employee Portfolio for each of the employees to help guide you in developing ways to best manage them. Resources: Results of Self-Assessments, University of Phoenix Material: Employee Portfolio Management Plan Complete the Employee Portfolio: Management Plan found on your student website for each of the three employees. Write a 350- to 700-word summary. Include the following in your summary: How might these three employees’ characteristics affect the performance of the organization? Recommendations for additional assessments. Submit the Self-Assessment Results with the Employee Portfolio and Summary. Week 2 Assignment Reflection Summary Discuss the objectives for Week One and Two. Your discussion should include the topics you feel comfortable with, any topics you struggled with, and how the weekly topics relate to application in your field. Write a 350- to 700-word summary of the team’s discussion. Week 3 Assignment Employee Portfolio Motivation Action Plan You are a manager for Riordan Manufacturing. You recently administered a series of assessments to your three employees to...
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